Marc Sandalow: Senator Schwarzenegger?

Give Gov. Schwarzenegger credit for originality in his steadfast refusal to shed light on the likelihood of a Senate run in 2010.

“I don’t want to know what I’m doing four years from now. It would be boring if I know today what is going to go on with me (in) four years,” Schwarzenegger told reporters in Washington this afternoon.

The non-declaration came in response to a direct question about whether he is interested in serving in the Senate, a rumor kept alive mostly by those who haven’t a clue (and not exactly discouraged by his staff who relish the idea of his political future.)

“I have not thought about it. Period,” Schwarzenegger insisted, launching into a two-minute monologue on why it is critical to plan ahead for California’s future into the next century.

As for himself, Schwarzenegger insisted such planning would spoil the fun.

“The uncertainty and not having a safety net was always my thing that drove me. I didn’t want a safety net,” Schwarzenegger told a small group of California reporters.

It is the reason he refused to consider a TV series — “it would have been too predictable,” Schwarzenegger said of his acting days.

“I wanted to finish the movie, then find and struggle for the next thing. Find a script. Find a director.”

“If I do a great job here with this job, if I can do the things that I want to do for California, I mean, there is a million things that will be available in 2010. So why worry about it?”

With that he was off to his next meeting; A sit-down with Barbara Boxer, the third-term Democratic Senator whom he would need to unseat in the unlikely event that the answer is yes.